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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






2. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






3. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






4. A character struggles against some outside force.






5. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






6. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






8. The dictionary meaning of a word.






9. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






10. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






12. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






13. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






14. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






15. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






16. A three-line stanza.






17. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






19. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






20. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






21. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






22. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






23. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






24. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






25. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






26. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






27. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






28. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






29. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






30. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






31. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






32. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






33. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






35. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






36. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






37. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






38. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






39. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






40. A four line stanza in a poem.






41. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






43. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






44. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






45. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






46. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






47. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






48. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






49. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






50. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.